Spiritweavers

Cold Exposure and Breathwork can be utilized as hormetic stressors to enhance immune system agility, stimulate healing and enhance overall wellbeing. Discuss the ancestral and ancient ways of this practice, the scientific phenomenon, and the many methods with mechanics and safety protocols. We will then explore the breath with a guided session of conscious breathing to incorporate all aspects of the practice. This will prepare the mind, body, and spirit for breathing through challenges, chosen and unchosen, seen and unseen. The chosen stressor created with the breath will reduce the reactivity to daily stressors. Reactivity to stressors directly affects our wellbeing from the inside out! Bring away from this class the tools and experience to develop a self-practice and the motivation to maintain frequency that greatly dissolves harmful...

Fungi are our sacred ancestors. They are foundational to a resilient planet, body, and community. Fungi illuminate our undeniable connectivity, our dance between life and death, help see the unseen, and exist more as a verb or flow than a stasis or conclusion. In many traditions around the world womyn are the ones who keep the mushroom knowledge. At the same time, in modern American culture, fungi have been dangerously neglected, misunderstood, vilified, condemned and deemed as nothing more than harmful pests. How do we, as womyn, honor and steward fungi in the body, kitchen, and land? How can we partner with fungi to nourish our families and communities? To engage healing and transformation in our own lives? How do we safely forage, process mushrooms for...

Healing Insecurity: A Journey in Plant Spirit Medicine Work with your ancestral medicine to build confidence from within. Deepen your relationship with plant magic. Access your spirit guides. Due to the practicalities of living under capitalism within a dominant culture that continues to practice oppressive systems of colonialism, it’s not a surprise that many of us feel inadequacy and doubt, or that we’re not enough, or generally uncomfortable in our own skin. Dive deep into the magical ways you can work with your plant allies in order to access your personal power and gifts. This workshop includes: • Journaling prompts oriented towards getting clear with the emotional/spiritual roots of your insecurity • Contextualization of insecurity within a social justice lens, to better understand how systems of oppression impact our well-being • An...

    This workshop will be about seeing ourselves truly in the light and colors we want to see ourselves. We will dive into word of affirmations, colors and feelings, and aspirations. We then, will dive into light sketching ourselves with a mirror and meditation, while painting ourselves. Healing through Self Portrait Painting Workshop is taught by Willorna Mendiola-Lara.  ...

  The focus of this class is to learn about herbal allies and holistic supports for Motherhood from fertility and preconception to pregnancy, birth, and postpartum. We will discuss nourishing practices for our mind, body, and spirit through diet, exercise, meditation, etc.. as well as sacred rituals to truly honor the Mother and her transition through this holy time. Overall, the class is about holistically supporting women and the ones yet to come with plant medicines and rituals that are rooted in the knowledge of our biological and physiological needs. Amber Young will be sharing Herbal & Holistic Supports Through the Birthing Year....

In the words of Robin Wall Kimmerer, “In some Native languages the term for plants translates to “those who take care of us.” This herb walk is a plant identification walk where we will get to know our local plants and their medicinal properties, but also how to tend to the native plants and wild land to avoid creating any disturbances in our ecosystems. We will learn about reciprocity and what it means to take care of the land and each other. Bring a notepad and pen! Herb walk will be offered by Andrea Jimenez....

    I have been a midwife and an herbalist for 25 years and I am so excited to share all of the herbal allies with you to support a healthy, natural pregnancy. Pregnancy can be a time of great shifts both mentally and physically and the plant world offers safe and effective care for both you and your growing babe. We will discuss the most common pregnancy shifts and learn the best ways to nurture and support yourself through the childbearing year. I will offer supplies to make an herbal tea to nourish you mama. You deserve all the love. This will be a time to mother the mother (you). Herbal Allies for a Natural Pregnancy will be taught by Misty McBride. ...

A workshop on the Lymphatic Rivers of Life that flow through our Breasts and how to care for them. The mountainous terrain that sits over our pulsing, feeling hearts. These magical fountains that flow milky liquid substance to nourish life into form. These highly attuned antenna, that pulse in response to the frequencies of our emotions. Keeping these rivers clear, nourished and flowing is essential for immune health, emotional attunement, and connection to our feminine channel of wisdom & love. And it is the KEY to keeping the breasts healthy and clear of dis-ease for the long term. You will learn where these rivers of life flow, how they work, and ways to support their free flowing health for the rest of your life. Our breasts are...

Learn the basics of keeping poultry for meat, eggs, and companionship. Class covers all components of poultry care including coop building, diet, egg preservation, behavioral issues and health care.   The Humble Art of Backyard Chickens will be shared by Autumn Freedom-Izdepski...

We will work with the Medicine of the Word, Circle + the Pink Rose to revere our experiences. In these ways, we honor the beings who arrived to our Wombs + have returned to the Stars. Abuela Sylvia Lemus Sharma of the Moon Dance Metzteopoxchikaualiz Atabeyra lineage has offered her blessing to share this ceremony. We foster intimacy through shared experience with others. Through healing in community, we remember that we are never alone + supported by every breath. Honoring Our Unborn Children: A Ceremony for those Who Have Released Pregnancy will be held by Natasha Pachalove....